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<! " : ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST. Rev, VV. A. Hafner, of Gaffney, ' was a visitor to Fort Mili Friday. 1 < Mrs. J. B. Mills and children ( are visiting relatives in Winns- , boro. , Dr. W. R. FiSher, of Concord. 1 has .taken a position in the dental 1 office here of Dr. J. Lee Spratt. I ] ^ Miss Mary Tarrant and Dr. ', William Kerrigan of Summerton, < were the guests during the past i week of Miss Willie Hoke. i The Rev. M. W. Gordon, of' Summerton, formerly pastor of j the Baptist church here, is visit- ( ing relatives in the community, j j if n T 11 ....'iL L ? I mrf. x\. lj. ivici^uuueu wiui nei children from Concord is visiting i in the home of Mr. and Mrs. !: A. 0. Jones. - j Mrs. L. M. Massey accom- ( panied by her little daughter has j gone for a visit of several weeks r to her parents in Jonesville. ; J. Harry Foster, attorney of ( Rock Hill, is announced in this ' issue as a candidate for solicitor * of the Sixth judicial circuit. 1 Misses Joyce and Blanch3 j Moser and Master Chas. Moser , leffTuesday morning for a two j weeks' visit to relatives at j LiiDerty, in. l,. Mr. J. Cal. Steele, of Rock j Hill, is the latest entrant to the i race for county sheriff, the announcement of his candidacy appearing in this issue of The Times. The time for the enrollment of ' those who wish to vote in the j primary next month for State ( and county officers expires on the 25th inst.. next Tuesday. Mr. Edgar Jones, whose home 1 is near the Catawba, says that 1 at its greatest height the river ( was 42 feet above mean low wa- 1 ter. Wednesday at noon the wa- j ter had receded so greatly that < the stream was confined to its i banks. i The annual picnic of the Fort . Mill Presbyterian church, held , on the church grounds Friday | a was largely attended and en- ( joyed, despite the high winds j and rz&i which came on in the early afternoon. See-saws, ( swings and other devices for the ] pleasure of the children had l\nnr\ v\?*Ain/l a/1 n v>/1 fhn lif f In f. ?l 1/ o uccn i/ivviucu oim me uttic iumo especially found the occasion one : of great pleasure. ] The Ti mes has received notice j that the candidates for congress j from this district .will adderess ( the voters of Clover today. Tomorrow the candidates will visit , Fort Mill and tomorrow night ; will address the voters of Rock ' Hill. The candidates for solicitor of this circuit will accompany , the congressional candidates and will deliver addresses at each of the above named places. Julius White, a son of "Uncle" | Baxter White, colored, who drives the Fort Mill garbage 'wagon, was among the number of workers who went do A n when the Southern railway bridge near Belmont, N. C., was swept away by Catawba river Sunday afternoon, but the negro was later rescued from the stream. I ] A new variety of cucumber, j j known as the "lemon," is being , grown for the first time in this ( section this year in the garden j of Mr. B. H. Massey. rhe | < cucumber has much the appear- j ^ . ance of a lemon, though when ( full grown it is about the size | of a baseball. Mr. Massey pro- . cured the seed from a Northern , seedsman. The cucumbers are recommended especially for pick- , ling. , Supt. J. D. Fulp, of the Fort Mill school, writing The Times j. from Columbia University, New York, says that there are en- jj rolled in that institution nearly . 8,000 students, of whom 80 are: from South Carolina. Prof, j' Fulp- was honored a few days ' ago by being elected editor-in- j1 lip' chief of the South Carolina ' ^ edition of the Columbia Specta|lflL tor, which will come from the i ^ pressestwithin a short time. Ladson M. Massey, until a few | $life , days ago first lieutenant on the i stafF of Major T. B. Spratt, is 1 j spending a few days at his home 11 in Fort Mill recuperating from a i |||||S slight operation which he under- ] went one day iast week in a Rock j j l|l|ll| Hill hospital. Mr. Massey was i BVHpt- rejected lor service in the army < | on account of the physical defect i which necessitated the operation, | but he is assured that now that < thel operation is successful he ' | irili be accepted in the service \ with the rank he recently held, j ] I LOCAL STORM LOSSES, i Catawba river bridge, built . by York county 16 years afro at a cost approximating $10,000 , and only recently repaired by | the county at an additional cost i pf several hundred dollars, was ] swept away Sunday at noon by the irresistible volume of storm water that came rolling and plunging down the rive*- as a result of the immense amount pf rain that fell in the Catawba watershed from 1 o'clock Friday afternoon to 10 o'clock Saturday morning. The bridge was on the main thoroughfare between Fort Mill township and all the balance of the county, and its destruction will result in great inconvenience to the people of this section. There were three spans of steel and iron in the bridge, the length of each of which was about 100 feet, and at either end : jf the bridge was a wooden approach about 100 feet in length. ! rhe foundations, in the stream | and on the banks, were of con- j ( irete and steel. These were jndisturbed, it is thought, by ( :he rush of water. The de- ^ ?truetion of the bridge was due n great measure to the congestion, on the north side of a ; < ?reat pile of debris, the pound- . ng of which by tons of water finally caused the bridge to give | way. Nothing was left tu mark the site of the bridge so far as the eye could see Monday morn- ( ng, but when the water re- ( zeded some of the uiers were . found in place and the frame- j , work of the bridge was resting | < on the river bottom a short j distance below where it stood. ] Mo one here had ever before seen the river so hiprh. Fort Mill peoplo are already ! speculating on the time of the j orobabie restoration of the , oridge. Not a few are of the ] a pinion that it would be unwise to build another bridge on the , site of the old one, which is considered too dangerous to risk the loss of the $20,000 or more which it will cost to bridge the river at any point in 1 this township. It is certain that the work of building another ' bridge cannot proceed further than agreement as to cost and location until the Legislature meets next January and the i county delegation acts in the I matter. i Great as is the county's loss j from the destruction of the river bridge, it by no means i represents the major part of the 1 lamage done by the storm in Port Mill township. Hundreds of acres of the finest river and ( creek bottom corn seen here in , years have been completely <le- . stroyed and other hundreds of i acres of upland corn and all the i cotton have suffered threat dam- : age. Many farmers who have aeen in town in the last day or wo have been heard to remark that they would have been better 3fF had they not run a furrow Lhrough their places this year. Sunday and Monday there was constant stream of people from town to the nearest points on the river, but the principal objective seems to have been Glrattan, which is the station of the Charlotte Brick Co., two miles south of town. From the lower side of the brick yard the river resembled an inland sea. in the midst of which was the club house of the local military j company. Late in the afternoon : the water had reached the eaves fhd tMiilrlirwr iiiUink t.wnl.nl.l.r I ^ * vii V MUIIUIII^, TV 111V1I ^1 would have been swept away earlier than Sunday night but for the protection afforded it by a number of nearby trees. It is said that the highest water from the Catawba since this building was put up a decade or more ago never got beyond the floor. The Southern Railway has been hard hit by the storm, but the misfortune of the company which will be most seriously felt locally occurred about 5 o'clock Monday morning when the first span >f the splendid steel bridge across ' the Catawba three miles south of I Port Mill went into the swirling torrent below with a crash that was heard a considerable distance away. Then at no great internals span after span of the bridge continued to disappear in the water until practically all of it had gone down by sunset monday evening. The last train ! to cross the bridge passed Fort Mill going south about 1 o'clock Monday morning. At that hour use of the bridge was considered extremely dangerous, but the train, a freight detoured from the main line between Charlotte and Atlanta, got over safely. The bridge was remodeled a few /ears ago at great cost to the Southern. To replace it will be < THE FORT 1 a job of weeks. It is not of course known what arrangement the company will make to transfer passengers, mail and baggage, but it is suggested that a pontoon bridge will be put in for temporary use, as was done at the same place by the old Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad Company when the bridge was burned by Sherman's army during the Civil war. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good, or words to that effect, to employ a more or less trite saying. While the storm brought disaster to all of the farmers of Fort Mill township who had growing crops in the bottom lands of the Catawba, at least two of the number were a little more fortunate than their brother farmers similarly situated. By hard work and at the risk of their lives. Messrs. W. D. Therrell and B. F. Bennett, whose farms are a short distance below the dam of the Southern Power company, succeeded in salvaging eight bales of cotton from the river. It is presumed that the cotton came down the stream from some point in North Carolina. In the I neighborhood of Wright's ferry' Messrs. R. N. Capps and R. A. Torrence salvaged 14 hales and nearby Mr. D. W. Flow was fortunate enough to fish three I bales out of the river. Fort Mill has been completely cut off from the balance of the county since the Southern Railway bridge went out Sunday night. The mails over the Southern south of here have been at a standstill, and it has been impossible to communicate even with Rock Hill, eight miles away. The telegraph and telephone wires were put out of commission Sundav evening and up to Tuesday evening no mail had been received from any point in the county since Sunday morning. It is certain that if there is to be any communication between Fort Mill and the balance of the county through the country, some means must be provided for crossing the Catawba- There isn't a ferry on the river within miles of this place. It might be feasible to open the old Nation ford at the Southern Railway river bridge site, but the undertaking would require a deal of work to put the road leading to the ford on either side of the river in passable condition. The ford was abandoned years ago and if it should again be opened to the public only horse drawn vehicles could use it. The last building destroyed in this section Monday by the dojd water in Catawba river was, so far as has been reported, the abandoned Carhartt roller mill, some distance un th*> riow f om Grattan. * yr This Space 1 Patterson's Dr i TELEPHONE NO. 85. i. hm, n, , , MILL TIMES, FORT MILL, SOI Mr. W. F. Stevenson for Congress. Champ Clark, in his speoeh to , the "Baby Congressman." being < circulated in this District, says that if a congressman has the 1 necessary qualities and you keep him there he is as certain to vise "as the sparks are to fly upward." Hear him! "It is an unwise performance for any District to change Representatives at short intervals. A new Congressman must begin at the foot of the class and spell up. Of course, the more tact, energy, courage, and industry he has the quicker he will get up. If he possesses these qualities and his constituents will keep him in the House, he is as certain to rise as the sparks are to fly upward. No human power can keep him down. It is only fair and rational to assume that every Representative's constituents desire to see him among the "topnotchers." Let us take the present House and see how long the men who > hold the high places have served. I cannot name all, but will cite a few as samples. Mr. Speaker Cannon is serving his fortieth year. He holds the record, or. in pugilistic parlance, 'he holds the belt,' for length of) service in the House in our entire ; history. In several Congresses he was chairman of the great Committee on Appropriations' and then was speaker eight years, only one man. Henry Clay, having been Speaker longer. I am serving my twenty-second year. Minority Leader Mann is j serving his twentieth year; Mr. Kitchin, chairman of Ways and Means his sixteenth; Mr. Fitzgerald. chairman of Appropriations, his eighteenth; Mr. Moon, chairman of the postotf.ee and post roads, his twentieth; Mr. Jones, chairman of the Insular Affairs and "father of the House," his twenty-sixth; M>\ Flood, chairman of Foreign Affairs, his sixteenth; Mr. Hay, chairman of Military Affairs, his twentieth; Mr. Glass, chairman of Banking and Currency, his his sixteenth; Mr. Webb, chairman of the Judiciary, his fourteenth; Mr. Adamson, chairman of Interstate and Foreign Commerce, his twentieth; Mr. Stephens, chairman of Indian Affairs, u:.. IL . o i 1 :? iiia LwtMiLieLii, i. oayuen, cuairman of the Library, his twentieth; Mr. Henry, chairman of Rules, his twentieth; Mr. Lever, chairman of Agriculture, his sixteenth; Mr. Padgett, chairman of the Navy, his sixteenth; Mr. Burnett, chairman of Committee on Immigration, his eighteenth; Mr. Lloyd, chairman of Accounts, his twentieth; and Mr. Sparknian of Rivers and Harbors, his twenty-second. There are other big chairmanships, but these will suffice to show that as a rule the big places go to old and experienced members, for most of the men who rank close to chairmen are old timers*" ^ The Congressman from the Fifth District who has bc* n there for eighteen years is not named as a "topnoicher." Surely, he <$> I ??t??? ? % $ % iteaerved for f /I J Ci I y uuuub oumc t "SELLS IT FOR LESS." I #? ? 4 i I j 4 H1 4HH44*4?4 ?*. #* 4 / UTH CAROLINA has been given time enough by the District.! The only other requisite, according to his friend Clark, is capacity. Has he furnished it? If so, why has he not risen? (Advertisement.) Schedule of Services Fort Mill Circuit of M. E. Church, South. for the Year 1916. Fort Mill Church?1st and 3rd Sundays at 11 a. m., and 4th Sunnay at night. . Sunday school every Sunday morning. Worn ana' Missionary society every 1st Sunday afternoon. Pleasant Hill Church ?1st ant! 3rd Sundays at 3:30 p. m. Sunday school every Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. I'h'ladelphia Church?2nd Sunday at 11 a. m.; 4th Sunday at 3:30 p. m. Sunday school every Sunday morning. (4th Sunday at 3:30 p. m.) India Hook Church?4th Sunday at 11 a. rn.; 2nd Sunday at 3:30 p. in. Sunday school every Sunday afternoon, (4th Sunday 10:00 a. m.) E. Z. JAMES. Pastor. MMHCTHHaSCSBBKWS* Now is the Time to do your repairing. You will need LUMBER for your fences, road bridges, repairs on your house, barn and outbuildings. We are in position to offer special inducements to early comers, giving you the best possible material, at prices that defy competition. Fort Mill Lumber Company Phone No. 72. $1,000.00 or $500.00 "I can carry double the amount of life insurance in the Union Central Life for the same premium that I am now paying," is what a man told us this week when he asked for the premium rate. I)o you not think it would pay you to ask us for the rate at your age? Safety - Saving - Service Thai is the Union Central. Bailes & Link, I FOR V || Let us fix y ? is the time yo 1y ^l Luiinu please you in your trip. D< bag, or a nice we have in 01 You'll find ? Goods, or anj ? need in our D ^ Let us "fix' H fortable, and : ? ish. See us c | Mills & \ ) y.i IjWajefitii pngf) Class i The town s one You get your or you get yc It's Cool, It's Cle Prom !| BUSINEJ | TO US E 11 ______ We find it han ^ of the patrona " from day to dj quire, and it d that friend or our behalf. W all these court ^ occasion to th ' their many kii and commends effort to conti I FIRST NAT t Under Supervisio 0 0@@0?J00 00@?(S a n a itita ALA I ID ou up for your u want to look rtable. We an anything you d you need a Si Trunk? If so, ir Furniture dep Ready-to-wear 'thing in this lin >ry Goods depai you up and n still be "dressed at the "Big Bus] torial Review Patt id a me Grace Corse : Young uy and Sell Everytl fiu. ^ HSRMWBW? -** > t tZTfjeatre, | 1 ilobing pictures. | I amusement place. : money s worth, >ur money back. I an, It's Comfortable | <mmt otD-Gngi:av'CL's Timinp Plates m Line find Haljf-Tone . mJyia^o vtfiQarolin a PTJtRVICE sS COMES i VERY DAY : " idj i to account for some ge that comes to us 'L ly. VVe sometimes in- r levelops that this or patron has spoken in ? e certainly appriciate esies, and take this + ank our friends for ^ id words of approval ition. It will be our inue to merit them. T ?????? IONAL BANK, I n of U. S. Government. * Hoi????? N TIME | Vacation. That ^ your best, and |j e sure we can 'Jjj may need for ? ait Case, Handsee just what <p >artment. |j Goods, Toilet % e that you may ? rtment. ^ lake you com- gj I up" and styl- ^ / Store." ? erns* ? :ts. ^ Comp'y |